Light-on-her-feet Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is OK with laying a heavier tax burden on the rich to save the planet.

The 29-year-old first-term member of Congress, in an interview with “60 Minutes,” proposed a tax rate as high as 70% on the wealthiest Americans to help fund the “Green New Deal” — an ambitious program to fight against climate change.

“I think that it only has ever been radicals that have changed this country,” Ocasio-Cortez says in the piece airing Sunday. “Abraham Lincoln made the radical decision to sign the Emancipation Proclamation. Franklin Delano Roosevelt made the radical decision to embark on establishing programs like Social Security. That is radical.”

Asked if she feels like a radical, the Washington neophyte embraced the label: “You know, if that’s what radical means, call me a radical.”

The “Green New Deal” aims to eliminate carbon emissions within the next 12 years, and Ocasio-Cortez acknowledges success would only follow a difficult and unprecedented effort.

“That is the goal,” explained Ocasio-Cortez, who was sworn into office Thursday. “It’s going to require a lot of rapid change that we don’t even conceive as possible right now.

“What is the problem with trying to push our technological capacities to the furthest extend possible?”

She knows it will require a lot of money, too, and has a plan for generating the funds. The young politician suggested a progressive tax system where the wealthiest Americans would pay to fund the program.

“There’s an element where yeah — people are going to have to start paying their fair share in taxes,” she said. “… Once you get to, like, the tippy-tops, on your 10 millionth dollar, sometimes you see tax rates as high as 60% or 70%.

“That doesn’t mean all $10 million are taxed at an extremely high rate, but it means that as you climb up the ladder, you should be contributing more.”

Ocasio-Cortez also offered a tongue-in-cheek response to internet critics of her dancing back in a video shot while she was a student at Boston University.

She and several classmates made a rooftop video where they all performed to the 2009 song “Lisztomania,” with the whole thing reposted this week by an internet troll.

“I hear the GOP thinks women dancing are scandalous,” she wrote with the video. “Wait till they find out Congresswomen dance too.”

The youngest woman ever elected to Congress also explained why she opted for red lipstick and gold hoop earrings for her Thursday swearing-in.

“Lip+hoops were inspired by (Supreme Court Justice) Sonia Sotomayor, who was advised to wear neutral-colored nail polish to her confirmation hearings to avoid scrutiny,” Ocasio-Cortez, who was born in the Bronx but raised in Westchester, revealed in a Friday tweet.

“She kept her red. Next time someone tells Bronx girls to take off their hoops, they can just say they’re dressing like a Congresswoman.”

The self-described Democratic Socialist cruised to victory in November after unseating longtime incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley, the No. 4 Democrat in the House.

Ocasio-Cortez’s challenge of Crowley was his first contested primary since 2004, when his opponent was too young to cast a ballot.

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Exactly how Socialistism works, the government decides what you can have in EVERY aspect. Ever wonder why the immigrants storming our borders are from socialist countries? This Socialistism just makes corrupt politicians more corrupt.

The Berlin Wall wasn’t built to keep millions of people OUT of communist East Germany, just the opposite, it was built to keep people(slaves) from escaping communist East Germany. It was successful, if you were a communist. It WAS DISGRACEFUL to the rest of the free world.

This is why the trans-national ruling clique enables and facilitates elections of young minority politicians; they will be used in order to pre-empt America’s wealth and re-distribute it among the poor of the world, after the clique and its lackeys take a handsome cut for themselves.

Robin Hood government is what we are going to have, so watch for your wallets.

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porthos

2:26 pm January 5, 2019 at 2:26 pm

copakeman, are you saying that walls work?

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lucitee

4:41 pm January 5, 2019 at 4:41 pm

Since the Puppet President was ‘bought’ into politics, the success of communism, Socialism, Idiotic Ideology (which is NOT a religion), et al, has escalated to the point of hog-tying and scaring the fertilizer out of anyone who doesn’t believe GOD is in control and NOTHING happens without his allowing it! Think of it this way; Did God ‘allow’ all the little fox’s to be elected (to the House), to chew the grape vine roots for the next two years, and prove to America they can do great damage to our vineyard’s? Destroying the entire vine? While giving the adult fox’s more control through OTHER means(Senate) to keep them from completely annihilating our means of support? Pointing out to those who “buy” our grapes ( American tax payers) just how much damage these Kits can do? By 2020, we will either yield to the dark forces through the ones who coached the LEFT and Extreme Left, OR true patriots will agree to STAND UP for our great nation? Our country is on the precipice! It’s up to those of us who love our country to defend it against ALL enemies foreign AND domestic! God is doing HIS part and he needs our prayers and help! Prayer is the ‘key’ to reach Heaven, but our faith is what unlocks the ‘door’! God bless all!

“I think that it only has ever been radicals that have changed this country,”

Not all change is good. Hitler was a radical and caused lots of change. We don’t need another Hitler. Go a little further down that line and you’ll see the saying “It takes all kinds” is nonsense. It doesn’t take a Charles Manson to get things done. There are many kinds of people we don’t need at all – Hitler and Manson among them. There are many others we can do perfectly fine without. Why? Because they cause change that nobody needs or wants.

Going back to a 70% tax rate is bad change. We’re still to the right of the Laffer Peak, so any further moves to the right will only cause problems. For the Left, they will be “unforeseen” problems. For conservatives they will just be problems, because they are entirely predictable and inevitable if we made such a stupid move.

We need more tax cuts, not rate hikes. This woman is a fool in every meaningful sense of the word.

Yes, there’s a very long list of the type of people we don’t ever need. Stalin and Mao are definitely on the list. Really any Socialist leader of any stripe, and of any era. That’s a great place to start. None of them were any good. Hitler, Stalin, Castro, all of them.

Another type we could really do without are all these ninnies who insist repeatedly that the USA is a Democracy. There’s the door. Good day.

We don’t need any pro-abortion baby killers. Some people might think that’s a stretch, but I challenge you to name one abortion advocate who wasn’t a total disgrace.

Remember in today’s climate if you are accused of molesting someone 30 years ago (Bill Cosby) they’re willing to lock you away for life despite any good you might have done.

Compare that to the “moderate” baby killers who claim* they want abortion to be rare, safe, and legal. Oh, so 65 million dead babies is bad, but a mere 5 million would have been just fine? Got it.

* I don’t believe it for a second.

Today, being accused of molesting women in the 1980’s is a bigger crime than killing millions of babies. That’s just so wrong it’s hard to find words to match my disgust. No, we really don’t need any baby killers, nor their willing accomplices who keep voting for them.

Socialist idiots never seem to understand that those wealthy people they are always dreaming about taxing more to PAY for every one of their loony ideas are the people who create JOBS for other Americans. But if they are taxed into the POOR HOUSE by the ever-greedy Left to fund their ever-more-idiotic pie-in-the-sky notions, then there won’t BE any jobs created, and then we’ll have another OBAMA economy, which is the LAST thing we need! 8 YEARS of that crap was MORE than enough!

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ltuser

1:10 am January 6, 2019 at 1:10 am

As i like to explain to folks, ‘tax people high enough, and any desire to EARN TOO MUCH IS GONE’.

What she really need to do–IF she is serious–is to somehow cut the Earth’s population down by 70%, and also somehow stop countries OTHER than the US from polluting! That new Muslim congresswoman from Detroit: one of FOURTEEN children? Is THAT sustainable? Especially in 3rd world countries that have NO means of securing energy for their most basic needs?

George, they were born in America! Wonder how many many Social Services they partook of? And how many vicious and disparaging comments were taught in THAT household? While being fed by tax payers? Might be enlightening to research it! We KNOW not a single one of them in our country are PRO-America! Otherwise they could NOT be accepted into the ‘outer realm’! They HATE America and plan our demise with every breath! And will be patient for decades if it’s that’s what it takes! So reassuring that the one TRUE God who created the universe and all that’s in it; Is in total control, no matter who thinks they’re in charge!

lucitee, since fully 92 PERCENT of Muslim “immigrants” in this country ARE on welfare, it’s a pretty safe bet that THIS nest of cockroaches were, also, and are just about as grateful for the longsuffering American taxpayers’ involuntary largesse as the REST of the COCKROACHES currently infesting our country.

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ltuser

1:11 am January 6, 2019 at 1:11 am

Sounds like when i lived in the UK. Heard many a story of some mudslime illegal alien coming in, demanding asylum and getting not only a house for HIM, but one for each of his 5+ wives.. ALL OFTEN ahead of UK Citizens who’d been waiting.

She really is a fool. Climate change belongs to God. He will change it if he sees fit. This young idiot only knows what they have taught her in school where most of the teachers, won’t say all in case there are one or two sane ones, are radical liberals. Tax rate hikes are so the fools, like her teachers, can make a bunch more money teaching garbage.

Come on now Lexi as she was known amongst her rich Westchester County circle of friends. You know full well that those same Westchester County friends of yours are going to scoff at your proposal for a 70% tax rate. However they ain’t too worried by what you say because they know its all part of the dog and pony show you’re putting on to appease the Bolsheviks that are in the Socialist party.

If you want to shut this girl down focus on the minimum tax everyone would pay under her plan. 20% for everyone on income. You might also focus on the 1963 budget of 94 billion that included a couple percent for the Moon program, funding for the Vietnam war, and an increase in welfare. That budget today would only be about 1 trillion in today’s dollars at the most. So if we are to go back to the 60’s lets go back all the way. Limit the budget to 1 trillion and tax everyone at 20% minimum. And remember in the 60’s there were deductions for everything. A wealthy person could gift to a charity and write off that 70% on the 1040A. Same for medical expenses, moving, etc, so many directed deductions. Really it isn’t a bad thing. Problem is is that she wants the highs to pay more the lows to get more free and the government to grow. Not that the rate is 70%. Lay off the dancing. To her base what she did is great. They want you to be upset. Best to ignore or at least say, If she dances to anti war tunes, she must support Trump’s withdraw from the stupid arab war zones Obama and Bush stuck us in. Anyhow, what’s so bad about a young college girl dancing and wearing earrings. You rightous right’s need to shut up. Let this dumb girl be hoisted on her own petard. She doesn’t need help.

What an airhead! However, to her credit at least she’s honest about what she wants. All the socialists before her (like Obama) just made vague statements about paying your fair share. She put a specific amount on what she feels is a fair share. The federal government will take 70% of what you earned over what they feel is an appropriate maximum income needed and you can keep 30%. So generous of them! Of course from your 30% you will also need to pay out state, county, property, sales and other misc. taxes.

The House of Representatives, on day one, takes up one bill and passes it, presents 3 outlandish bills (Articles of Impeachment, Abolish ICE, and Abolish the Electoral College) and leaves town for a week. Pelosi probably couldn’t wait to get on her Broomstick One to take her back to California. AND ….. the new Representatives ran their campaign on NOT SUPPORTING PELOSI FOR SPEAKER. That was a lie.
Purge 2020

These people just WASTE the 30% they get each year. Obama doubled the NATIONAL DEBT in 8 years, and there is NOTHING Americans have gotten, instead more unsustainable debt for their folly. And a corrupt Justice “for all” except ……

We see how well a 50%+ tax rate is working in France right now. We see how well socialism (and don’t think this isn’t socialism) has worked in the USSR, Venezuela and other countries. She is a loose cannon and all they do is cause harm and destruction.

It is interesting, these liberal, Democratic, Socialists, and Establishment types all gravitate to liberal news media,outlets where the hosts are agreeing with instead of questioning HOW, WHAT, WHEN, or WHY; and refuse to talk with conservative news outlets. Waters and Schiff appear on MSNBC so many times they probably have their own office, dressing room, and staff.

Sure start with her paycheck. Send her to Venezuela to live for a while…like 10 years. I think she will qualify for sensitivity training. Then again let her keep foaming at the mouth so the lefties might finally see what they have elected.

You forgot: Puppet! But also; “Slave to the Establishment”! Owned and monitored by the ones who eliminated her challenger! THEY knew she was about as useful as a bungee ripcord! Which was perfect for their agenda!

Since the gov’t shutdown is screwing conservative and liberal parents and children why don’t we go bipartisan and dock the pay and benefits of everyone in Congress per day retroactive to the first day of the shutdown. I reckon that’ll get their attention. Lloyd M.

I agree with a lot of the comments here, but to be given time on 60 Minutes immediately upon becoming a freshman Congresswoman tells me that the Powers That Be on the Left are quite serious and plan to take her very far. No.44 was an unknown but was given national TV time before he won the race for Senate, so this one may end up ascending the political ladder regardless of how vacuous she is. At this point, America will elect a street person with a cheap gimmick.

Jeff Sessions was intimately involved, stopping the drugs, human trafficing. The contruction on the border has not stopped. The military is involved. Everyone knows who is holding up the wall funding and getting the government functioning again.

I think she’s on to something. The first thing they need to do is look at the wealth of people like Pelosi, Feinstein, the Clintons, the Obamas, Tom Styer , all the Hollywood celebrities, the late night millionaire ‘comedians’, Micheal Moore and Bernie Sanders, calculate what 70% of their worth is and take it for the government.

When you’re 20 and NOT a liberal, you have no soul. When you’re 40 and NOT a conservative, you have no BRAIN! The ability to look back, study our own or someone else’s HISTORY and make GOOD decisions is particularly human. Maybe she will change, but it’s doubtful. “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”. D.C. is absolute power. Chucky, No-Name, Flakey, Nancy, Paulie…MAY have had altruistic motives in politics. But D.C. politics took them down. Bernie KNOWS the truth about Socialism, but he’s too invested and his SECRETS are known by too many. He has made himself a hostage to the D.C. machine, and doesn’t have the guts to cut the cord. We are witnessing the “evilization” of Ocasio-Cortez. She will sell Socialism until someone unfurls her cold, dead fingers from the Communist Manifesto in a few decades. She is doomed. Perhaps innocently, but surely, she is the servant of Satan.

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